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ACCELERATE MONTANA

EIN 81-0529738 MISSOULA, MT

Largest nonprofits in Montana

Revenue 2024
$6,560,759
Expenses 2024
$6,099,656

Program services were 87.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
S30
Classification
1000
Street
1121 E BROADWAY ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED START-UP BUSINESSES, BOLSTERING INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND CREATING JOBS TO REVITALIZE THE REGION AND STATE. ACCELERATE MONTANA STRIVES TO SUPPPORT START-UPS AND WORKFORCE WHILE ENCOURAGING THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED START-UP BUSINESSES TO OBTAIN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND CREATE JOBS TO REVITALIZE THE REGION AND STATE. ACCELERATE MONTANA STRIVES TO BOLSTER LOCAL START-UPS AND TO ENCOURAGE THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH.

  • TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED START-UP BUSINESSES; TO OBTAIN INNOVATIVE RESEARCH FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED START-UP BUSINESSES; TO CREATE QUALITY JOBS AND TO REVITALIZE AND DIVERSIFY REGIONAL AND STATE ECONOMICS AND TO PROMOTE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $5,329,953 · Grants $48,014 · Revenue $3,049,606

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Scott Whittenburg

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $252,374
    From this org
    $22,993
    From related orgs
    $229,381
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $22,993 + $229,381 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $22,993 + $229,381 related

  • Paul Lasiter

    Director

    Total calculated
    $242,620
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $242,620
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    not reported + $242,620 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    not reported + $242,620 related

  • Brigitta Miranda-Freer

    DIR. OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $159,448
    From this org
    $53,481
    From related orgs
    $102,758
    Other
    $3,209
    Hours/week
    8 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $53,481 + $102,758 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,209
    Filer's total
    $56,690 + $102,758 related

  • Paul Gladen

    DIR. PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $158,158
    From this org
    $44,831
    From related orgs
    $110,637
    Other
    $2,690
    Hours/week
    12 + 32 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $44,831 + $110,637 related
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,690
    Filer's total
    $47,521 + $110,637 related

  • Jennifer Harms

    DIR. FINANCE/OP

    Total calculated
    $141,866
    From this org
    $124,699
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,167
    Hours/week
    40

  • Jay Evans

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $99,381
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $99,381
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 20 related

  • Christina Henderson

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joe Easton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Booth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $6,560,759
    Expenses
    $6,099,656
    Contributions
    $2,861,044
    Grants paid
    $48,013
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,524,296
    Expenses
    $5,161,098
    Contributions
    $1,590,436
    Grants paid
    $26,934
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $4,652,105
    Expenses
    $4,459,070
    Contributions
    $505,522
    Grants paid
    $19,756

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,665,471
    Expenses
    $2,509,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,106,813

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,235,487
    Expenses
    $1,134,802
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,975,186

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $905,043
    Expenses
    $962,526
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,864,626

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $859,735
    Expenses
    $1,027,846
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,015,643

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $892,874
    Expenses
    $1,179,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,099,208

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $892,874
    Expenses
    $1,179,642
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,099,208

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $997,904
    Expenses
    $1,145,002
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,489,053

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $827,929
    Expenses
    $719,744
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,671,482

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $201,198
    Expenses
    $285,351
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,594,538

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $227,414
    Expenses
    $305,271
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,725,913

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

    501(c)(3) · PUBLIC UNIVERSITY · MT

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.